Children shown the importance of saving money
18/08/2006
The importance of savings has been highlighted to school-children in Wales via the method of dramatic performance.
Lasa Credit Union in Swansea commissioned the Theatre in Education department of the Swansea Institute to produce a play about the importance of money and creating savings.
The play, set in a chat-show style, is effectively a finance guide for children, offering financial information on a number of everyday money-related matters.
One school in Swansea has seen the show so far, with other institutions in the city due to view the production over the next year.
The play is filmed and used as classroom-discussion material in order to encourage pupils to talk about money and how best to manage their finances.
"The innovative play written by the college students uses the recognisable scenarios of young people to help them see ways to improve their futures," says Angela Ball, a financial inclusion outreach worker at Lasa.
"The pupils and staff watched the plot unfold and gave the thumbs up to a way of reaching young people. It is an effective tool for improving financial capability in schools."
The government is currently developing plans to include financial skills on the national curriculum; initial plans are to implement these classes into mathematics lessons.
Lasa Credit Union in Swansea commissioned the Theatre in Education department of the Swansea Institute to produce a play about the importance of money and creating savings.
The play, set in a chat-show style, is effectively a finance guide for children, offering financial information on a number of everyday money-related matters.
One school in Swansea has seen the show so far, with other institutions in the city due to view the production over the next year.
The play is filmed and used as classroom-discussion material in order to encourage pupils to talk about money and how best to manage their finances.
"The innovative play written by the college students uses the recognisable scenarios of young people to help them see ways to improve their futures," says Angela Ball, a financial inclusion outreach worker at Lasa.
"The pupils and staff watched the plot unfold and gave the thumbs up to a way of reaching young people. It is an effective tool for improving financial capability in schools."
The government is currently developing plans to include financial skills on the national curriculum; initial plans are to implement these classes into mathematics lessons.
